Dunedin Highland Games Ale

Brewed by Dunedin Brewery
Style: Porter
Dunedin, Florida USA

Fantastic stuff. Totally unexpected from a Florida brewer. Very rich and smoky porter, I would go as far as to call this a smoked beer. If you see it, better get it!

draft @ redlight redlight. Huge molasses nose sweet tobacco, somewhere between pipe tobacco and chewing, hints of tar and peat, its really impressive on the aroma! Pours reddish dark brown with a thing off white head. A wonderful flavor! Peaty, with loads of tobacco, molasses and caramelized malts, roasty and sweet, with hints of tar. Really quite unique! I’ve had some peat smoked beers, rauch beers, but this has a wonderful tobacco/tar-like quality mixed with the sweet molasses that is just great drinking!

Draft. This was a spectacular porter. A very dark finish with rich smokey and matly flavors (but still creamy). Easily one of the best porters I’ve ever had. I wanted to take some home from the brewery, but they had no bottles available.

In bottle. A winner, the best I had from this brewery. Very dark and rich and peaty and scottish, prototypically so. This one would be good to find again.

A finely crafted brew from the dunedin brewery. I had been looking forward to their beer, and this was my first. It had a darkness to it and an overall deeply solid flavor. The bagpipes on the label were what put me over the edge, i mean come on, can you really go wrong with the pipes.

Pours with a thick pillowy tan head. Great smokey, roasted peat malt flavor with a soft bitter finish. The best I have had from Dunedin. A treat from the Sun Coast.

Overall a great porter. It is not too awfully heavy and has smoky malty flavor to it. It does not hit my palate like a ton of bricks and it was creamy enough to enjoy quickly. Solid.

Dark, dark red. Smoky as all-git-out, assuming that all-git-out is quite smoky. I mean, I assume it is, but it’s not like there’s a git-out glossary I’ve come across recently. Nicely rich and earthy as you bring the glass up. Some roast coffee malts up front, followed by smoke, followed by a nice long toffee finish. Reminded me in many ways of Tootsie Rolls dipped in coffee, with a bit of tobacco in it. Somehow, though I loathe both coffee and tobacco, I mean that in a good way. Again, is too thin, as everything I tried from this brewery was, but this is quite tasty.